SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY & MORE-WHAT I FIND INTERESTING

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By Bethany Frasier

Bethany Frasier
Oceans
The Deep Sea Is Filled with Treasure, but It Comes at a Price
The New Yorker - Elizabeth Kolbert
We’ve barely explored the darkest realm of the ocean. With rare-metal mining on the rise, we’re already destroying it. The International Seabed Authority is headquartered in Kingston, Jamaica, in a building...
5 days ago
Bethany Frasier
Soil
Soils from Antartica seem to contain no life—something that's never been found
National Geographic - Douglas Fox
For the first time, scientists have found soils on the Earth’s surface that appear to harbor no life at all. The soils came from two windswept, rocky ridges in the interior of Antarctica, 300 miles from...
2 days ago
Bethany Frasier
Oklahoma
North America's lost civilisation
BBC Travel - Larry Bleiberg
In 1933 on the eastern edge of the US state of Oklahoma, a group of failed gold prospectors watched as their partner struck a pickaxe into clay. Witnesses say the air hissed as it escaped from a burial...
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Bethany Frasier
Prehistoric Mammals
A Pandemic Of Bunions Terrorized Medieval Europe Thanks To The Era's Long, Pointy Shoes
allthatsinteresting.com - All That's Interesting
Evidence of medieval bunion plague found, woolly mammoth remains uncovered, 500-year-old Incan rope bridge rebuilt. Medieval Europeans Suffered A …
9 hours ago
Bethany Frasier
Art
German police appeal for information after 17th century paintings found in skip
The Guardian - Associated Press
German police have appealed for information from the public after two 17th century paintings were discovered in a skip at a highway rest stop. Police said a 64-year-old man found the oil paintings at rest...
8 hours ago
Bethany Frasier
Gulf of Mexico
34 Pre-Columbian Artifacts Returned to Mexico by Germans
artnews.com - Maximilíano Durón
On Wednesday, Mexico revealed that it had received 34 pre-Columbian artifacts that were owned by two German citizens. The two citizens, who were not …
1 day ago
Bethany Frasier
Aliens
Do Aliens Exist? 5 Experts Answered The Question, And Their Replies Are Fascinating
ScienceAlert - CHYNTHIA WIJAYA & NOOR GILLANI
Speculation has been rife about the contents of an unclassified report set to be released later this month from the Pentagon's Unidentified Aerial …
2 days ago
Bethany Frasier
Cubism
Illuminating Infographic Reveals How 24 Art Movements Got Their Names
My Modern Met - Sara Barnes
Have you ever wondered why we call Cubism… well, Cubism? Or how the artistic movement Futurism got its name? Adam Aleksic, aka Etymology Nerd, reveals the how and why some of the biggest—and most influential—art...
2 days ago
Bethany Frasier
Nature
A Magical Series Captures the Gnarled Branches of Socotra's Dragon Blood Trees
thisiscolossal.com - Grace Ebert
Russian photographer Daniel Kordan (previously) is adept at locating extraordinary environments around the world—he captured this dazzling series of …
2 days ago
Bethany Frasier
Africa
An Artist's Quest to Document the World's Oldest Trees
sierraclub.org - Robert Moor
Most plants possess a genetically circumscribed life span, but many trees barely seem to age at all We live among creatures far taller, far stranger, …
1 day ago
Bethany Frasier
The Alamo
'Forget The Alamo' Author Says We Have The Texas Origin Story All Wrong
NPR - Dave Davies
Remember the Alamo? According to Texas lore, it's the site in San Antonio where, in 1836, about 180 Texan rebels died defending the state during Texas' war for independence from Mexico. The siege of the...
2 days ago